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Cover artist
  
'Nichols'

Publication date
  
1949

ISBN
  
0-85315-664-6

Author
  
Gwyn Thomas

Publisher
  
Michael Joseph


Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (book)

Originally published
  
1949

Genre
  
Historical drama

OCLC
  
16529102

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All Things Betray Thee, by Gwyn Thomas, is a novel of early industrialism in South Wales. It was first published in 1949, and was republished in 1986, with an introduction by Raymond Williams.

Set in 1835, this work is significantly different from most of Gwyn Thomas's work. It is both a personal story and an account of the origin of the industrialised and mostly English-speaking society of the South Wales Valleys.

Plot summary

Set in the new town of Moonlea, a fictionalised version of Merthyr Tydfil, it is told from the viewpoint of a travelling harpist, Alan Hugh Leigh, who is looking for his friend, the singer John Simon Adams. But his friend has become a populist leader among the ironworkers, who are involved in a bitter industrial conflict.

Rachel Trezise describes it as "an emblematic account of the 1831 Merthyr Rising".

References

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